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Molodezhny, at least, has something to sell. Some shops open at 8 a.m. but close by lunchtime, when the day's allotment of food is gone. Other state-run outlets are closed indefinitely for "renovations...
PROFITEERING. While state-run stores are empty, the country's free farmers' markets offer an abundance of everything from mandarin oranges and pickled garlic to sunflower oil. Prices, though, are staggering. The average annual income of Soviets is only 250 rubles, and so few can afford the luxury of tomatoes at 10 rubles for about two pounds, or beef at 30 rubles a cut. Peasants gripe that free markets in Moscow are under the control of black- marketeering middlemen from the Caucasian republics who are deliberately limiting supplies to keep prices high. Managers of state-run shops also hold back...
...that is gone, but certain limitations remain. The parliament did not allow voluntary religious classes in state-run schools. Until a new legal regime for conscientious objectors is developed, they will still be drafted by the Soviet military. The law leaves intact a less powerful version of the Council for Religious Affairs, through which the KGB previously controlled religious organizations. But all of that may soon change further. The Russian republic, for one, plans an even more liberal religious statute...
...years, eight cents on a pack of cigarettes within three years for example -- but, with the economy heading into a recession, they will certainly be felt by those whose incomes are already being pinched. Similarly, the plan's proposed Medicare cuts will push some of the elderly poor into state-run Medicaid programs, even as many states see their revenues shrink. Indeed, among the plan's critics are Governors who fear that higher excise taxes will cut further into states' incomes, with estimated losses in the larger states running to hundreds of millions of dollars. Some of these inequities could...
Those consciences, however, are apparently less than clear. The Times said that 12 reporters were involved in the project. But none have come forward, their names have not been revealed, and their colleagues are reluctant to talk to reporters about the situation. Said one journalist at state-run Israel Radio, where some of the 12 reportedly work: "I wasn't involved. I don't know anyone who was. That's all I will tell you." In the wake of last week's revelations, a clearly embarrassed Foreign Ministry said it was suspending its relationship with the Avi Yaffe Studio...